Choose a production that you have seen that combines skills of actors and designers in an enjoyable or unusual way. Discuss in detail one scene or section that you have found particular effective.

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Choose a production that you have seen that combines skills of actors and designers in an enjoyable or unusual way.

Discuss in detail one scene or section that you have found particular effective.

You will need to refer to activity on stage, audience reaction, possible lighting, sound, set design and costume.

The production that I will be writing about is called ‘Kiss me Kate’. This play was seen on the 23rd of May 2002 at the Victoria Palace Theatre. The section that I will be talking about is the “Wunderbar.” This play was set in Baltimore in 1948. It was a musical comedy, which was also a play within a play. The plot also included Shakespeare’s ‘Taming of the Shrew’. The stage was a proscenium arch stage.

The two characters that I will be talking about is Lilly Vanessi who was played by Marin Mazzie and Fred Graham who was played by Brent Barrett.

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In the play, Mazzie and Barrett were married but divorced. In this scene, the set was split into two dressing rooms. In Mazzie’s dressing room, there were shades of pink, green, frills, a chalice lounge, and dainty lamps. This showed us that there was a feminine environment to the set and that there were signs of wealth. This contrasted to Barrett’s dressing room, which contained shades of green and a beige square table and masculine accessories.

You could tell that there was less money on Barrett’s side because of the smaller space and the sparsely equipped room. He had ...

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